[CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

2010-05-27 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
CentOS 4.8 Hi All: We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The problem that I am having now is that the failed drive had ceased responding to SCSI commands and we have since rebooted the system which

Re: [CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: CentOS 4.8 Hi All: We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The problem that I am having now is that the failed drive

Re: [CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

2010-05-27 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Brian Mathis Sent: May 27, 2010 15:27 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: I know that I can just reboot the system and kudzu will add the tape drive back in during the boot process however I was wondering if it would be possible to manually

Re: [CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

2010-05-27 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 5/27/2010 6:14 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: CentOS 4.8 Hi All: We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The problem that I am having now is that the failed drive had ceased responding to SCSI

Re: [CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

2010-05-27 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From Ryan Manikowski Sent: May 27, 2010 18:42 When you say the 'system' no longer recognizes the tape drive, are you sure the SCSI controller even detects the tape drive during boot? From what I've seen, tape drives use the generic tape driver and get mapped to /dev/stX. I know that it